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A97251	The odious, despicable, and dreadfull condition of a drunkard, drawn to the life to deterre others, and cause them to decline the wayes of death, or, A hopefull way to cure drunkennesse (the root of all evill, and rot of all good) in such as are not (by long custome) past cure : composed, and published for their good, who (not for want of ignorance) prinde themselves in drunken good-fellowship : which probably may open their eies, as the tasting of honey did Jonathan, and cause them to say as the governour to the bridegroome, John 2.10, The good wine was kept back untill now / by Junius Florilegus.	Younge, Richard.	1649 (1649)	Wing Y167A; ESTC R43834	50,174	55

wounding of his go●● name impairing of his health prejudice of his peace discredit of the Gospell an● professors ther●of the stumbling of weak ones the incouraging of indifferent and unresolved ones the fore-staling and hardning of his associates and all other enemies who know or heare of it Briefly he that drinkes more fo● lust or pride or covetousnesse or feare or good fellowship or to drive awa● time or to still conscience then for thirst is a drunkard in Solomons dialect● hee is the party to whom those many Woes before rehearsed do belong Fo● drinke is not onely abused when it turnes up a mans heeles and makes th● house turne round but when it steales away the affections so farre tha● a man can neither buy nor sell nor meet any friend or customer bu● straight to the Taverne or Alehouse Perhaps sixe times in a day as is th● common but base custome of most Trades-men And what ever they think 〈◊〉 if I have any skill in scripture they are to bee ranked with drunkards A● for those that truely feare God though they may use their Christian liberty and sometimes drinke a little for delight yet ordinarily they drinke a● other creatures drinke only to satisfie and quench their thirst Nor can those formall and titular Christians deny but in cases of this nature things are rather measured by the intention and affection of the doer then by the issue and event And why should not a man bee deemed a drunkard for his immoderate and inordinate affection to drinke or drunken Company as well as an adulterer for the like affection to his neighbours wife Mat. 5.28 And so much of the reward and punishment of this sin § 38. I should now proceed to the remedies at least if there were hope of reclaiming them but to speake ingenuously I never intended it for their sakes as considering that habituated drunkards will be sure to turne their backs upon this bright shining truth Jer. 38.15 Sore eyes cannot abide the light of the Sunne nor Bankrupts of their Counting bookes nor deformed faces of the Looking-glass as our Saviour shewes John 3.19 20 21. Neither had Satan any braines if he s●ou●d suffer them A Faulkner you know will carry divers Hawkes hooded quietly which he could not do if they had the use of their sight or admit they should read it I have not the least hope of their yeelding for these lines to them would be but as so many characters written in the water which leave no impression behinde them James 1.23 24. 2 Kings 8.12 to 16. Prov. 23.35 Nor will all the water in the Sea make one of these Blacke moores white The drunkard hath been too long sicke of this disease to be recovered Besides it is a sinne that increaseth with age a Gamester will hold out so long as his purse lasts an Adulterer so long as his loines last but a Drunkard so long as his lungs and life lasts It is like a desperate Plague that knowes no cure It may be called the Kings Evill of the soule that none except God himselfe can heale whence Augustine compares it to the pit of Hell out of which there is no hope of redemption I speake of drunkards not of one drunken such who rarely and casually have Noah-like been surprised and overtaken at unawares but once a custom and ever a necessity As for instance let them be told by any minister the hainousness of this sin and what a fearfull reckoning of vengeance will come in the end it is to no more purpose then if he should speake to lifeless stones or senseless plants or witless beasts For they will never fear any thing till they be in Hell fire They have no faith in the Scriptures they will not beleeve what is written therefore they shall feel what is written Or secondly let God send never so heavy judgements upon the land as Plague Famine Warre or the like these warped wicked wretched men neither feare nor cease to rore drinke drab sweare c. so little are they moved with Gods displeasure and those grievous judgements Yea when the fire of Gods wrath is kindled amongst us for their sakes they do but warm themselves at the flame even sinning so much the more freely and merrily even living as if they were neither beholding to God nor afraid of him both out of his debt and danger Yea as if the judgement were not onely welcome unto them but they would fall to courting of their owne destruction as if with Calanus they hated to dye a naturall death Yea thirdly suppose the Drunkard hath every day purposes to forsake his sin suppose he strives against it yea detests and bewailes it in himselfe and others and thereupon indents with himselfe and his friends for the relinquishing of it yet let him but meet with a companion that holds but up his finger he followes him as a foole to the stockes and as a Oxe to the slaughter-house having no power to withstand the temptation but in he goes with him to the tipling house and there he continues as one bewitched or conjured with a Spell out of which he returnes not till he hath emptied his purse of money his head of ●eason and his heart of all his former seeming grace O this is a difficult Devil to be cast out and I wish men would beware of it in time for when a man is once possest with this evill spirit a drunken Devill it is a miracle if ever he become his owne man after And indeed it is much to be feared that the Lord hath done by them as by Jeremiah he threatneth the Babylonians even given them over to a perpetuall drunkennesse Jer. 51.39 And is it not just with God that he who will put out his naturall light should have his spirituall extinguished he that will deprive himselfe of reason should lose also the guide and pilot of reason Gods spirit and grace he that will wittingly and willingly make himselfe an habitation of uncleane spirits should not disposesse them at his pleasure Alas the flesh unto them that shall perish will be stronger then all my reasons The sound of the pot with them will drowne all reprehension all admonition They will rather be confounded then reformed and nothing will confute them but fire and brimstone All those beasts which went into the Arke uncleane came likewise out uncleane and a brute Beast is as capable of good counsell as a drunkard once become a scorner yea as Basil speakes we were as good round a dead man in the eare as admonish a drunkard And indeed he is dead in sinne onely his sinne is alive and not onely dead as Jairus daughter was Mat. 9.25 nor onely dead laid out and coffin'd as the Widowes sone of Naum was Luke 7.14 but even dead coffin'd and buried with a Stone upon the Graves mouth to keep him in by reason of long custome as Lazarus was John 11.39 even till he stinkes in the nostrils of

perish The reason of it is taken out of the Proverbs an Arrow drawne out of Solomons sententious Quiver Read the words and tremble A man that hardeneth his neck when he is rebuked shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy Prov. 29.1 Yea the Lord himselfe saith Prov. 1.24 25 26 c. Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out mine hand and yee would not regard but despised all my counsell I will also laugh at your destruction and mocke when your feare cometh And of this we have sundry instances The sonnes of Ely would not hearken unto nor obey the voyce of their Father why because saith the Text the Lord was determined to destroy them 1 Sam. 2.25 Their hearts must be hardened that they may be destroyed I know saith the Prophet to Amaziah that God hath determined to destroy thee because thou host done this and host not obeyed my counsell 2 Chron. 25.16 20. O remember I beseech you that there is a day of account a day of death a day of judgement comming wherein the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in slaming fire to render vengeance unto them which obey not his Gospell and to punish them with everlasting perdition from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2 Thess 1.7 8 9. Jude 15. at which time thou shalt heare him pronounce this fearfull doome Depart from me yee cursed Mat. 25.41 which is an everlasting departure not for a day nor for yeares of dayes nor for millions of yeares but for eternity and that from Christ into those scorching flames of fire and brimstone which are prepared for the Devill and his Angels More particularly consider how many woes the word of God pronounceth against drunkards As woe to Drunkards saith Esay that are mighty to drinke wine and unto them that are strong to poure in strong drink that continue drinking untill the wine doth inflame them Woe saith Habakkuk unto him that giveth his neighbour drink till he be drunken Woe saith Solomon to them that tarry long at the wine to them that goe and seeke mixt wine Woe to his body which is a temporall woe woe to his soule which is a spirituall woe wee to both body and soule which is an eternall woe Howle ye drunkards saith Joe● weepe ye saith S. James Esay 5.22 Habakkuk 2.15 Joel 1.5 James 5.1 5. Yea which of Gods servants hath not a woe in his mouth to throw at this sinne and every title of this word shall be accomplished God will one day hold the cup of vengeance to their lips and bid them drink their fils Yea as drunkards are Satans Eldest sonnes so they shall have a double portion of vengeance Whereas riot in the forenoone hath beene merry in the afternoone drunke at night gone to bed starke mad in the morning of their resurrection it shall rise sober into everlasting sorrow they finde not the beginning and progress so sweet as the farewell of it shall be bitter For as sure as God is in heaven if they forsake not their swilling which they are no more able to do then they are able to eat a Rock the Devill hath so besotted them they shall once pay deare for it even in a bed of unquenchable flames I speak not of the many temporall judgements which God brings upon them in this life though to mention them alone were omni-sufficient if they thirsted not after their owne ruine As I could tell them from Levit. 26. and Deut. 28. that all curses threatned all temporal plagues and judgements which befal men in this life are inflicted upon them for sin and disobedience But I speake of those torments which are both intolerable and interminable which can neither bee indured nor avoided when once entred into If I say you persevere in this your brutish sensuality and wil needs Dives-like drink here without thirst you shall thirst hereafter without drinke Yea though that fire be hot the thirst great and a drop of water bee but a little yet in this hot fire and great thirst that little drop shall be denied you Luk. 16. For know this that without repentance Paul will be found a true Prophet who saith that No drunkard shall ever inherit the Kingdome of Heaven 1 Cor. 6.9 10. And Esay no less who saith that Hel enlargeth it selfe for drunkards and openeth her mouth without measure that all those may descend into it who follow drunkennesse and prefer the pleasing of their palats before the saving of their soules Esay 5.11 14. As they make their belly their God and their shame their glory so damnation shall be their end Phil. 3.19 Yea their end is a damnation without end wickedness hath but a time but the punishment of it is beyond all time Neither is the extremity of the pain inferiour to the perpetuity of it for the paines and suffering of the damned are ten thousand times more then can be imagined by any heart as deepe as the Sea and can rather be indured then expressed It is a death never to be painted to the life no pen nor pensil nor art nor heart can comprehend it Yea if all the Land were Paper and all the water Inke every Plant a Pen and every other Creature a ready writer yet they could not set down the least piece of the pains of Hell fire for should we first burne off one hand then another after that each arme and so all the parts of the body it were intolerable yet it is nothing to the burning of body and soule in Hell should wee endure ten thousand yeares torments in hell it were much but nothing to eternity should we suffer one paine it were enough but if we come there our pains for number and kindes shall be infinitely various as our pleasures have beene here Every sense and member every power and faculty both of soule and body shall have their severall objects of wretchedness and that without intermission or end or ease or patience to indure it O that I could give you but a glimps of it that you did but see it to the end you might never feel it that so you might be won if not out of faith yet out of feare for certainly this were the hopefullest meanes of prevention for though divers Theeves have robbed Passengers within sight of the Gallowes yet if a sinner could see but one glimps of Hell or be suffered to looke one moment into that fiery lake he would rather chuse to dye ten thousand deaths then commit one sinne And indeed therefore are we dissolute because we do not think what a judgement there is after our dissolution because we make it the least and last thing we think on Something you have heard of it but alas I may as well with a Coale paint out the Sunne in his splendor as with my pen or tongue express the joyes of Heaven which they willingly part withall or those

But in the meane time how many thousands which are hard driven with poverty or the exigents of warre might be relieved with that which these men spend like beasts while that is throwne out of one Swines nose and mouth and guts which would refresh a whole family And doth not the very eccho of this sinne this excessive devouring the good creatures of God together with the teares of the poore dayly cry in his eares for vengeance on all that use it if not for a famine upon the whole land for their sakes who turne the Sanctuary of life into the shambles of death and because they are suffered Yes undoubtedly Yea O Lord it is thy unspeakable mercy that our Land which hath beene so long sicke of this drunken disease and so long surfetted of this sinne doth not spue us all out which are the inhabitants § 8. Now by that these gut mongers have doubled their mornings draught or gulped downe so many quarts as they can well overcome for I will tye my selfe to the Drunkards method their hearts come up as easily as some of their drinke For wine saith Plato is the daughter of verity the glasse of the minde saith Euripides Yea let him get but a cup or two more in his pate his limitlesse tongue shall clatter like a window loose in the winde and you may assoone perswade a stone to speake as him to be silent For then it fares with his clapper as with a sicke mans pulse which alwayes beats but ever out of order Yea one Drunkard hath tongue enough for twenty men it being like that clapper at Roane which is so bigge that it is said to weigh without the Bell more then sixe hundred pounds And what is their discourse First they discover all secrets for like as when the wine purgeth saith Plutarch that which is in the bottome cometh up to the brim and swimmeth aloft or else it breaketh the vessell and runneth all abroad Even so drunkennesse discovers the secrets of the heart And indeed if discretion and moderation be as hoopes to a vessell how should these hogsheads keepe their liquor if ye take away those hoopes It is the property of a drunkard to disgorge his bosome with his stomach to empty his minde with his maw he can ill rule his hands but worse his tongue fat cups oyle that so that it cannot sticke and makes it so laskative that it cannot hold And whatsoever is in the heart of a sober man is found in the tongue of a Drunkard Drinke disapparels the soule and is the betrayer of the minde it turnes the key of the tongue and makes it unlock that counsell which before wisdome had in keeping And experience shewes that when a man is drunke you may thrust your hand into him like an Eele skinne and strip his inside outwards Or suppose you urge him not the wine having set his tongue at liberty it shall resemble Bacchus his Liber pater and goe like the sayle of a Windmill for as a great gale of winde whirleth the sayles about so aboundance of wine whirleth his tongue about and keeps it in perpetuall motion For now he rayles now he scoffes now he lyes now he slanders now he seduces talkes bawdy sweares bannes foames and cannot be quiet untill his tongue be wormed Nor is he more lewd then lowd for commonly a lewd tongue is a lowd one and a lowd tongue a lewd one Impudent speakers are like gaping oysters which being opened either stinke or there is nothing in them § 9. But to keepe close to Drunkards this Cacodemons discourse is all quarrelling scoffing or scurrilous for as he hath a spightfull tongue in his anger so he hath a beastly tongue in his mirth as these two inseparably attend each other First a spightfull tongue in his anger for if you mark him then as having more rage then reason he enterlaceth all his discourse either with reviling the present or backbiting the absent Now all his prayers are curses and all his relations lyes as talkative and lying are two birds which alwayes flye out of one nest To be short heare him when he is in this veine and but seriously consider his condition you would think that by a just judgment of God he were metamorphosed like Hecuba the wife of Priamus into a dog for without question their wits are shorter and their tongues longer then to demonstrate them rationall creatures Secondly the Drunkards communication is ever filthy and beastly full of all ribaldry and baudinesse no filthy talke or rotten speech whatsoever comes amisse to a Drunkard Yea no word savours well with them that is not unsavoury their onely musicke and so it fares with all the rude rabble is ribaldry modesty and sober merriment with them is dulnesse So that from the beginning to the end he belcheth forth nothing but what is as farre from truth piety reaso● modesty as that the moone came down from Heaven to visit Mahomet O the beastlinesse which burnes in their unchast and impure mindes that smoakes out of their polluted mouthes a man would thinke that even the Devill himselfe should blush to heare his childe so talke as how doth his mouth run over with falshoods against both Christians and Preachers what speaks he lesse then Whoredomes Adulteries incests at every word Yea heare two or three of them talke you will change the Lycaomans language and say Devils are come up in the likenesse of men And because it is a small matter with them to meddle with their equalls or to sit upon their parish Priest as those Hogsheads terme him in such meetings they will visit a whole Drocesse and Province nay the sagest Judge and gravest Counsellor and greatest Peere in the land must do service to their Court and be summoned before the Alebench according to that in the Psalmes They set their mouths against Heaven and their tongues walke through the earth Psal 73.9 And having huft their smoake into the face of these they will have a health to King Charles and what not for the honour of England § 10. Thirdly from wicked talking hee proceeds to cursed and impious swearing blaspheming c. as you shall rarely see a Drunkard but hee is a great swearer and not of petty oathes but those proditious and fearfull ones of wounds and bloud the damned language of Ruffins and Monsters of the earth together with God danne me which words many of them use superficially if they repent not Yea they sweare and curse as if Heaven were deafe to their noise O the numberlesse number of oaths and blasphemies that one blacke-mouthed Drunkard spits out in defiance as it were of God and all prohibitions to the contrary I dare affirme it had some one of them three thousand pounds per annum his means would scarce hold out to pay those small twelve peny mulcts which our Stat●te Law imposes upon swearers were it duly executed and if so to what number will the oaths and curses

torments of Hell which they strive to purchase for as one said that nothing but the eloquence of Tully could sufficiently set forth Tullies eloquence so none can expresse those everlasting torments but he that is from everlasting to everlasting And should either man or Angell goe about the worke when with that Philosopher he had taken a sevennights time to consider of it he might aske a fortnight more and at the fortnights end a month more and be at his wits end at the worlds end before he could make a satisfying answer other then his was that the longer he thought of it the more difficult hee found it Alas the pain of the body is but the body of paine the anguish of the soule is the soule of anguish But to be everlastingly in hel to lye for ever in a bed of quenchless flames is not all for as thy sinnes have exceeded so shall thy sufferings exceed As thou hast had a double portion of sinne to other men here so thou shalt have a double portion of torment to them hereafter The number and measure of Torments shall be according to the multitude and magnitude of offences mighty sinners shall be mightily punished For God will reward every man according to his workes Rev. 20.12 13. and 22.12 As our workes are better or worse so shall our joyes in heaven our paines in hell be more or lesse As every one hath beene more wicked so he shall bee more wretched Capernaum exceeding Sodome and Gomorrah in sin shall feel also an excess of punishment And the wilfull servant shall receive more stripes then the ignorant Luke 12.47 48. Matth. 10 15. Which being so viz. that every man shall be punished according to merit what will become of thee surely thy sinnes are so prodigious that they scorne any proportion under a whole volume of plagues If thou wilt see the particular circumstances which greaten aggravate and adde weight to thy sinnes and make them above measure sinfull turne to pag. 465. in the Drunkards Character and read to the 142 Section Or in case thou objectest that God is mercifull and that the Theefe was heard by our Saviour at the last houre read the answer to that Plea from pag. 542. to the 154. Section for I cannot stand upon them here Neither let drunkards ever hope to escape this punishment except in due time they forsake this sinne for if every transgression without repentance deserves the wages of death eternall as a just recompence of reward Heb. 2.2 Rom. 6.23 how much more this accursed and damnable sinne of drunkenness which both causeth and is attended upon by almost all other sins ashath beene proved § 36. And yet if thou canst after all this but truly repent and lay hold upon Christ by a lively faith which ever manifesteth it selfe by the fruits of a godly life and conversation know withall that though thy sinnes have been never so many for multitude never so great for magnitude God is very ready to forgive them and this I can assure thee of yea I can shew thee thy pardon from the great King of Heaven for al that is past the Tenure whereof is Let the wick●d forsake his wayes and the unrighteous his own imaginati●us and turn to the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will aboundantly pardon Isa 55.7 And that we should not doubt of this he redoubles the promise Ezek. 18. and confirmes the same with an oath chap. 33.11 Yea sinnes upon repentance are so remitted as if they had never been ●ommitted I have put away thy transgression as a cloud and thy sinnes as a mist Esay 44.22 and what by corruption hath been done by repentance is undone as aboundance of examples witness He pardoned Davids adultery Solomons Idolatry Peters Apostasie Paul did not onely deny Christ but persecuted him in his members as thou dost yet he obtained mercy upon his repentance Yea amongst the worst of Gods enemies some are singled out for mercy witness Manasses Mary Magdalen the Theefe c. many of the Jewes did not onely deny Christ the holy one and the just but crucified him yet were they pricked in heart at Peters Sermon gladly received the word and were baptized Acts 2.41 Yea I can shew thee this very case in a president 1 Cor. 6.10 11. where ●●e read of certain Corinthians that had been given to this sin of drunkennes ●ho upon their repentance were both washed sanctified and justified And S. Ambrose tels of one that being a spectacle of drunkenness proved after his conversion a patterne of sobriety Yea know this that Gods mercy is greater then thy sinne what ever it be thou canst not be so infinite in sinning as he is infinite in pardoning if thou repent Let us change our sinnes and God will change his sentence The seed of the Woman is able to bruise this Serpents head Wherefore if you preferre not hell to heaven abandon this vice But withall know that if it shall come to pass that the drunkard when he heareth the words of this curse namely these threatnings before rehearsed shall Pharaoh-like harden his heart and bless himselfe in his wickedness saying I shall have peace although I walke according to the stubbornnesse of mine owne ●eart so adding drunkennesse to thirst the Lord will not be mercifull to that man ●ut then his wrath and jealousie shall smoak against him and every curse that is ●ritten in his law shall light upon him and the Lord shall put out his name from under heaven as himselfe speakes Deut. 29.19 20. which chapter together with the former I wish thee to read if thou wilt know thy selfe and fore-know thy judgment § 37. But will some Titormus say being it may be stronger to drinke and aller to tiple then Milo himselfe was to eate who devoured a whole Oxe at a meale as Poets pretend I was never so gone yet but I knew th● way home I could tell what I did what I said c. Yea no man ever sa● me so much as wheele in the streets I am therefore no drunkard neither d● these threats appertaine to me To whom I answer Perhaps thou art no drunkard in thine owne or th● worlds account but in Gods account whose Law extends even to the hea●● and affections Mat. 5.28 he is one that is mighty to drink wine and of strengt● to pour down strong drink Esay 5.22 He that goes often to the drinke or tha● tarriteth too long as it Prov. 23.30 He that will be drawn to the Tavern● or Alehouse by every idle solicitor and there be detained whole houres i● drinking against his stomach and constitution of body against his judgement the checkes of his owne conscience the motions of Gods spirit the ea●nes● dehortation of his godly friends and many woes to the contrary to the spending of his mony wasting of his pretious time neglect of his calling abusing 〈◊〉 the creatures which thousands better then he want